30+ Blek Le Rat Vs Banksy

His name originates from the comic book blek le roc using rat as an anagram for art.

Blek le rat vs banksy. Banksy even went through a whole phase of painting rats all around the place. El estilo de le rat es dibujar ratas soldados y personas de tamaño real con plantillas. Cited by banksy as a key influence you can see this in the work of blek le rat but is blek really banksy after all they both could be seen as pioneers of the single layered stencil form which made banksy so famous. In 2011 blek was seen adding to a mural begun the previous year by banksy in. Yet if banksy is indeed the daddy of politically conscious graffiti let me introduce the godfather blek le rat. A homage to blek le rat perhaps or blek himself. We are comparing.

The 56 year old frenchman was stencilling city walls while banksy was getting to. Initially influenced by the early graffiti art of new york city after a visit in 1971. Whatever banksy s true feelings are towards this pioneer of the street art genre one thing is for sure and that is that the student has become the master. British graffiti artist banksy has acknowledged blek s influence stating every time i think i ve painted something slightly original i find out that blek le rat has done it as well only twenty years earlier the two have expressed mutual desire for collaboration. Banksy now believed to be 38 was still at primary. However it can be assumed that banksy will not be lured by the luxuries and extravagences of the highest levels of the art world and will remember his humble beginnings. After meeting blek le rat at his ratical exhibition in chicago along with my side kick chicagojohnny i spent the entire next day filming what he does best making art in.

Banksy is now one of the most famous artists worldwide almost reaching a level of iconography where as blek le rat has never achieved such renown and global recognition. Xavier prou 59 who works under the name blek le rat invented the life sized stencil technique that banksy would later use to make his name. He described the rat as the only free animal in the city and one which spreads the plague everywhere just like street art. Veinte años más tarde llega banksy a dibujar precisamente lo mismo y se justifica diciendo cada vez que creo que he pintado algo ligeramente original me doy cuenta de que blek le rat lo hizo mejor sólo que veinte años antes.